United States Seventh Circuit

City does not exercise prior restraint in refusing to renew liquor license for club featuring nearly nude, though not obscene, dancing where the grounds for non-renewal are based upon complaints of neighbors that the character of the establishment is incompatible with the "normal" activity of the neighborhood.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/30/2001
• Decided 05/29/2001
• Published 05/29/2001

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeff Scott Olson (argued), Madison, WI, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Schrimpf (argued), Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for defendant-appellee.